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kuz_929@reddit

You gotta watch through 30+ hours of footage and condense it down to an hour. That's a ton of work

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BellendicusMax@reddit

And he'd actually have to, know, farm rather than have a script available...

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Cynical_Jingle@reddit

Tbf, with the production value they currently have thats not feasible.. BUT it could be viable as a fly on the wall reality TV style but I can see that losing value quickly

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stupidfatcat2501@reddit

To be fair if they do vlog style, much lower production and much more rapid churning, totally doable. But would they want to?

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Estrofemgirl@reddit

Should just do this during the time between seasons or during a lull in filming. Call it "Clarkson's Shorts" or whatever. Unscripted, iphone level filming.

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the_capibarin@reddit

I think Amazon might not want to dilute the brand, if you get what I mean

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KamakaziDemiGod@reddit

They could fully lean into it and start their own YouTube platform

I have no idea if it would work but if they did Clarksons Farm and Hammonds Workshop would be perfect for stuff like that if they did it right and it would draw people to their platform

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agentspanda@reddit

Doesn’t Amazon already have twitch? I’m not a user personally but as I understand it that fills a similar niche.

Frankly I’m with the other poster- this seems like a lot of work for not much ROI and potentially even negative ROI to crank out a “series” for a video sharing platform that could dilute the brand significantly especially considering there’s no way the quality could/would be as good as full-fat CF.

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This_Explains_A_Lot@reddit

Also Clarkson has been making high quality content for decades. There is absolutely no chance he would have any interest in making low quality content just for the sake of churning out more views.

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KaiLCU_YT@reddit

Jeremy practically does that already on Instagram

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LakersRebuild@reddit

A lot of these are loosely scripted… Also the shows are enjoyable because of the rhythm… meaning building tension and stress, than quickly Jeremy finding a ridiculous way to overcome. And then you find out why his solution doesn’t work, and then he finds another ridiculous solution.

Finally he wraps everything up in a neat little package at season’s end.

You can’t have any of that unless you specific script, shot, and edit on a weekly level.

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Independent-Judge-81@reddit

There's probably a lot of down time that would be considered "not entertaining " and lots of boring parts of just feeding and cleaning

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behold-my-titties@reddit

That just wouldn't work at all, I mean follow socials for daily/weekly check ins but each season is tailor made. This isn't a "grab the cameras and follow Jeremy's life".

It's entertainment.

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Songwritingvincent@reddit

People have NO IDEA how much work television is. If you want something done weekly you basically need it to be scripted and edited live because editing down hours of footage from multiple cameras after the fact takes so long. Quick turnaround pieces won’t look anywhere near as good as Clarkson’s farm or Top Gear does/did.

I work at a broadcaster and watching Top Gear now I can really appreciate just how much work these guys (especially the crew we basically never got to see) did.

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Ok_Lock9330@reddit

Even scripted you'd have to have it be done like a Soap. Some do 5 eps a week all year round but that's only doable because they have huge casts and multiple camera crews and things filming constantly getting the various plotlines shot. Basically simultaneously 5 separate tv shows being shot and outting out an episode a week each with the scenes chopped up and dispersed amongst the episodes. That's a well honed factory where the actors need to essentially perform a new play every week because they can't do many second takes and half the edit is done in camera as they shoot.

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Longjumping-Box5691@reddit

Hey chatgpt to do all the work

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Schwartzy94@reddit

Yea weekly is unrealistic but the modern take on tv is just not what it once was. Where tv seasons had 20+ episodes. Of course not everything had that but still.

Clarksons farm definetly would benefit couple more episodes per season.

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Songwritingvincent@reddit

Doubtful, it would probably become repetitive quite quickly

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Schwartzy94@reddit

This latest season was great example imo that 2-4 episodes more would have helped alot. Now it felt quite rushed and there was no time for the farming aspect.. of course the pub was the main focus but still.

For me this is relaxing show and i would not mind seeing maybe aome repetitve stuff like the farming the fields etc.

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mynameisjberg@reddit

Fr, it's not like Clarkson's Farm is a bunch of random clips of Jeremy farming. They edit all the footage down and help create story arcs so it's easily digestible for viewers. Anyone with minimal editing experience will agree that's a monumental task.

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Pretend-Adeptness937@reddit

Yeah I’ve only ever done audio editing and that can take ages to do to make the splicing hard to notice but for TV and film you’ve got stuff like that PLUS all the visual stuff on top so and episode probably takes at least a couple of days to edit

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Frosty_Maple_Syrup@reddit

You don’t need to have editing experience to know that’s not how TV works

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XuX24@reddit

Well YouTube have lowered the standards, you have people releasing blogs daily but it will never be the same quality. In Clarkson farm they condense months into episodes, if he went with a YouTube format it won’t be as good.

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Saint_The_Stig@reddit

Even with YouTube there is a clear difference between that content and a Twitch stream that it was edited down from. I mean there is plenty of low effort crap on YouTube just like TV and everything else, but the Livestream era really made it clear how much heavy lifting editing does.

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singh-ularity@reddit

Kinda related but this is what makes Hard Knocks (HBO series following NFL teams pre-/in-season) so impressive. The editing and cinematography are so good yet they release concurrently, just a week between a game and the episode it's about

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Songwritingvincent@reddit

Ok I just had to check it out. While the camera quality overall is certainly good you don’t seem to have narration or much of a coherent story (am I correct in this?)

That’ll make things a whole lot easier, it’s basically someone on the team writing down what parts to include as they happen and the editors jumping to those points, cams possibly synched so they can just do edits between cams quickly. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but it makes things more like shooting a newsreel rather than a narrative documentary style like clarksons farm

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singh-ularity@reddit

The stories are usually contained, for example if they highlight a particular player both on the field and at home leading up to a game where they have a significant impact. But can also be across the series, such as follow a player's story if they have an injury or personal issue. I agree not as clear or set in stone narratives as Clarkson's Farm, but still a lot of footage they have to comb through to develop some through-lines for emotional engagement.

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GrynaiTaip@reddit

There are plenty of productions where they make videos and publish them weekly or multiple times per week and it's fine.

Matt's Offroad Recovery is one, their production quality is really quite good and they post a new video every other day. Sunday videos are often one hour long.

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Ok-disaster2022@reddit

Honestly they have to scrub through thousands of hours of footage to make just the 8 episodes. Maybe you could pull off a monthly vlog type of situation. But then you'd have August episodes coming out in November.

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AfonsoFGarcia@reddit

Basically turning clarkson’s farm into a reality show. No thanks.

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Schwartzy94@reddit

Hopefully people would ask 10-12 eps for season 5

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WAR10CK94@reddit

They underestimate the time we’ll spend watching sheep/cow live unedited live footage of a farm

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B00M3R_S00N3R@reddit

Need to hire Orion from Synidcate/Life of Tom for some daily vlogs!

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Bourbonaddicted@reddit

Make him a twitch streamer

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ReggaeReggaeBob@reddit

It takes a surprisingly long amount of time to do all the scripting and choreo, make sure the actors have all their queues etc. And the narrative has to take place over a finite period so as to provide a palatable beginning > Middle > End format for Amazon.

And for the record, there are cameras there 24/7, like most businesses. They use CCTV. Just would be completely boring even for you without all of the scripted content. It will just be some sheep wandering about in some shit all day.

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MACFRYYY@reddit

I mean his mate down the road already has this via Harry's farm

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kyletronik@reddit

Regardless of production value, an edit is still required to develop a cohesive narrative. Vlog style is almost more difficult due to the sheer volume of content that needs to be reviewed, packaged and rendered. I’d love to see more of JC and the crew, but having watched Jeremy for going on 20 years, a casual, all day vlog would land his career in the toilet. We see his filtered self, I can’t imagine what he says when the cameras aren’t rolling lol.

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Songwritingvincent@reddit

I’m doubtful he’d actually get himself in trouble. He seems to play it up for the camera/audience sometimes. But it wouldn’t make for good TV

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ccReptilelord@reddit

I wonder how much there'd actually be in this case. I feel there's only these bursts of interesting stuff. This is also mixed with extended parts of his life not farm related, I mean, he's a celebrity with family not part of the show. (Bit of a spoiler here) Look at the final episodes of season 4, there's two weeks of just waiting to harvest grain. Sure. There's other material, but how much are we going to watch them feeding the pigs without something out of the ordinary?

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